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WIRE BED BOTTOM AND FRAME.

APPIJOATION IILED FEE 14, 1908.

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JOSHUA N. RABEDEW AND ELMER A. VERNAL, OF MINTURN, COLORADO.

WIRE BED-BOTTOM AND FRAME.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 29, 1908.

Application filed February 14, 1908'. Serial No. 415,927.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that we, JOSHUA N. RABEDEW and ELMER A. VERNAL, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Minturn, in the county of Eagle, State ofColorado, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in WireBed-Bottoms and Frames; and we do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

This invention has relation to Woven bedbottoms, that are capable ofbeing stretched.

It is the object of the invention to provide particular means foradjusting the bed-bottom laterally between the side rails, all as isclearly illustrated in the annexed drawings forming a part of thisspecification, in order that the bed bottom may be used interchangeablyupon bedsteads of different Widths, and in order to tighten the bottomshould it become slack.

Of the said drawings :Figure 1 is a plan of our improved adjustablebed-bottom. Fig.2 is a longitudinal side elevation of a side-rail andsectional view of the ends of the end rails to which it is attached.Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of a side-rail, including asection of the end rails with which it is connected. Fig. 4 is atransverse section. Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section of an end rail andthe ends of the side-rails with which it is connected. Fig. 6 is aperspective view of one of the adjusting hooks, detached.

Similar characters of reference designate corresponding parts orfeatures, as the case may be.

In the drawings 2, 2 are the side rails, and 3, 3 the end rails of amattress 4, composed of woven-wire, though it would not be a departurefrom the invention, if the mattress were elastic and otherwiseconstructed, and the balance of our improvements were adapted to be usedin connection therewith, without substantial change.

The rail 2 is square, and of one piece, as shown in Fig. 4, while theside rail 2 is but half the width of the side rail 2, but hassecuredthereto the slat 6. The ends of this rail 2 are, however, as wide as therail 2, as shown in Fig. 6. I

The two-part side rail is adapted to have the margin 5 of the mattressconnected therewith by merely inserting the said margin between the rail2 and a slat 6 nailed on the side rail against the said margin of themattress. edge, has the other edge carried around the rail 2 and thehooks 7 connected with the latter edge thereof, and have the hooked ends8 caught in the body of the wire, after it has been stretched around therail 2 to hold said wire in evenly distended condition.

In order to further stretch the mattress, after it has been secured inposition as before described, we provide special means for eX- tendingthe end rails, which cooperate with the first-mentioned means, as wewill now proceed to explain.

Each side rail at each end has a square mortise, as shown in Fig. 5. Theend rails are similar in construction, each being in the form of a tube,having a square tenon 9, to fit into one of the side rails, as the onemarked 2 shown in Fig. 5. Within the open end of each tubular end member3, 3, is held an adjusting screw 10 having a reduced square tenon,fitting into the mortise of the rail 2. Threading upon each screw 10, isa nut 11, which by means of the mattress 4, is normally "held inengagement with the adjoining endmember, as shown in Figs. 1 and 4. Inrotating the nuts 11 in one direction, the screws 10 and the connectedend rail are advanced, to stretch the mattress, while in rotating thenuts in an opposite direction, the mattress is slackened.

The said hooks 7 are formed from a length of Wire with an eye 8'v at oneend and a hook at the other, in order that they may be permanentlyengaged with the edge of the mattress at the end provided with an eye,leaving the hook for temporary engagement with the mattress, as desired.

By the foregoing described invention, the wire may be permanentlyattached at one side of the mattress frame and temporarily secured tothe other side while the end rails may be extended to properly stretchthe wire after being placed in position for use.

An important feature of our improvement is theposition of the hooks atintervals along one edge or margin of the woven wire, as stated, 'whichhooks may be enga ed with the body of the wire intermediateo its sidesto adjust it to any desired size of bed.

What is claimed is An adjustable bed bottom, comprising the combinationof the following instrumentali-' ties: two similar tubular end railseach having one closed end provided with a projecting The mattress 4,thus fastened at one square tenon, a side rail rectangular incrosssection having at each end a square mortise to receive said tenons,a second side rail having a square mortise in each end, a wire mattresssecured along one edge to said last mentioned side rail and looping oversaid first mentioned rectangular side rail, two screws having squareends to fit into the mortises of said last mentioned rail, said screwsbeing held within said tubular end rails, nuts upon said screws andworking against said tubular ends, and a plurality of hooks secured tothe looped end of said mattress and adjustably engaging said mattressintermediate of its sides, all arranged as disclosed.

In testimony whereof, we afli); our signa tures in presence of twowitnesses.

JOSHUA N. RABEDE\V. ELMER A. VERNAL. Witnesses:

CHARLES SrMs, MEYER B. HAAs.

